Publications

2024

1. LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Heterointerface: 20 Years and Beyond

Shunfeng Chen, Yuanjie Ning, Chi Sin Tang*, Liang Dai, Shengwei Zeng, Kun Han, Jun Zhou, Ming Yang, Yanqun Guo*, Chuanbing Cai, Ariando Ariando, Andrew TS Wee, Xinmao Yin*

Advanced Electronic Materials, pp. 2300730, 2024.

2. Deciphering the ultra-high plasticity in metal monochalcogenides

Lok Wing Wong, Ke Yang, Wei Han, Xiaodong Zheng, Hok Yin Wong, Chi Shing Tsang, Chun-Sing Lee, Shu Ping Lau, Thuc Hue Ly*, Ming Yang*, Jiong Zhao*

Nature Materials, pp. 1-9, 2024.

3. Synthesis of core@ shell catalysts guided by Tammann temperature

Pei Xiong, Zhihang Xu, Tai-Sing Wu, Tong Yang, Qiong Lei, Jiangtong Li, Guangchao Li, Ming Yang, Yun-Liang Soo, Robert David Bennett, Shu Ping Lau, Shik Chi Edman Tsang*, Ye Zhu*, Molly Meng-Jung Li*

Nature Communications, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 420, 2024.

4. Selective nano-buckling improves the performance of graphene logic transistors

Tong Yang, Ming Yang*

National Science Review, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. nwad316, 2024.

5. Emerging Electronic Properties of Polymorphic 2D‐TMDs

Tong Yang, Zishen Wang, Jiaren Yuan, Jun Zhou, Ming Yang*

Two‐Dimensional Transition‐Metal Dichalcogenides: Phase Engineering and Applications in Electronics and Optoelectronics, pp. 127-179, 2024.

6. Van der Waals enabled formation and integration of ultrathin high-κ dielectrics on 2D semiconductors

Matej Sebek*, Zeng Wang, Norton Glen West, Ming Yang*, Darren Chi Jin Neo, Xiaodi Su, Shijie Wang, Jisheng Pan, Nguyen Thi Kim Thanh*, Jinghua Teng*

npj 2D Materials and Applications, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 1-9, 2024.

2024

2023

1. Phase-controllable large-area two-dimensional In2Se3 and ferroelectric heterophase junction

Wei Han, Xiaodong Zheng, Ke Yang, Chi Shing Tsang, Fangyuan Zheng, Lok Wing Wong, Ka Hei Lai, Tiefeng Yang, Qi Wei, Mingjie Li, Weng Fu Io, Feng Guo, Yuan Cai, Ning Wang, Jianhua Hao, Shu Ping Lau, Chun-Sing Lee, Thuc Hue Ly*, Ming Yang*, Jiong Zhao*

Nature Nanotechnology, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 55-63, 2023.

2. Tunable hydrogen evolution activity by modulating polarization states of ferroelectric BaTiO3

Haifa Qiu, Tong Yang, Jun Zhou, Ke Yang, Yiran Ying, Keda Ding, Ming Yang*, Haitao Huang*

Journal of Materials Chemistry A, vol. 11,no. 13, pp. 7034-7042, 2023.

3. Reversion of catalyst valence states for highly efficient water oxidation

Xiaolei Huang, Fenghe Wang, Lipo Ma, Jiawei Wang*, Tianyi Zhang, Xiaoyu Hao, Xiao Chi, Hao Cheng, Ming Yang, Jun Ding, Diing Shenp Ang*

Catalysis Science & Technology, vol. 13, no. 9, pp. 2820-2826, 2023.

4. Coexistence of ferromagnetism and charge density waves in monolayer LaBr2

Jun Zhou, Zishen Wang, Shijie Wang, Yuan Ping Feng*, Ming Yang*, Lei Shen*

Nanoscale Horizons, vol. 8,no. 8, pp. 1054-1061, 2023.

5. Lifting surface reconstruction of Au (100) by tellurium adsorption

Erwen Zhang, Huan Lu, Wei Zhang, Shuiyan Cao, Yang Wang, Rong Rong, Ying Liu, Zhuhua Zhang, Ming Yang*, Yanpeng Liu*, Wanlin Guo*

Nano Research, pp. 1-7, 2023.

6. Computational prediction of stable semiconducting Zn-C binary compounds

Jiajun Linghu*, Tingting Song, Tong Yang, Jun Zhou, Kimyong Lim, Chornghaur Sow, Ming Yang, Yuanping Feng, Xuezhi Wang*

Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, vol. 155, pp. 107237, 2023.

7. Structural Reconstruction Modulated Physical Properties of Titanium Oxide at the Monolayer Limit

Tong Yang, Ke Yang, Tao Zhu, Ting Ting Song, Tian Bao, Jun Zhou, Shi Jie Wang, Yunjiang Jin*, Martin Callsen*, Ming Yang*

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 127,no. 11, pp. 5631-5639, 2023.

8. Room-temperature electric field-induced out-of-plane ferroelectric polarization in strain-free freestanding 2D SrTiO3 membranes

Yueying Zhang, Jiaming Li, Ke Yang, Fangyuan Zheng, Yuqing Zhou, Yuguo Zhang, Yupeng Hui, Yue-Qi Wang, Jiang Zhu, Jincheng Zhang, Yue Hao, Ming Yang, Tao Li*, Jiong Zhao*, Haijiao Harsan Ma*

APL Materials, vol. 11,no. 4, 2023.

9. Highly efficient hydrogen production from methanol by single nickel atoms anchored on defective boron nitride nanosheet

Shengshu Yang, Fang Zhang, Haifa Qiu, Ming Yang, Fengjuan Qin, Hao Tang, Wenxing Chen, Zhengang Liu*

Nano Research, pp. 1-9, 2023.

10. Field-free spin-orbit torque switching via out-of-plane spin-polarization induced by an antiferromagnetic insulator/heavy metal interface

Mengxi Wang, Jun Zhou, Xiaoguang Xu*, Tanzhao Zhang, Zhiqiang Zhu, Zhixian Guo, Yibo Deng, Ming Yang*, Kangkang Meng, Bin He, Jialiang Li, Guoqiang Yu, Tao Zhu, Ang Li, Xiaodong Han, Yong Jiang*

Nature Communications, vol. 14,no. 1, pp. 2871, 2023.

11. Coexistence of surface oxygen vacancy and interface conducting states in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 revealed by low-angle resonant soft X-ray scattering

Ming Yang*, Ariando Ariando*, Caozheng Diao, James C Lee, Kaushik Jayaraman, Mansoor Jalil, Serban Smadici, Shengwei Zeng, Jun Zhou, Weilong Kong, Mark BH Breese, Sankar Dhar, Yuan Ping Feng, Peter Abbamonte, Thirumalai Venkatesan, Andrivo Rusydi*

Applied Physics Reviews, vol. 10, pp. 021420, 2023.

12. Incorporating Nitrogen Atoms at TiO2 Lattice Sites for Improved Transparency and Visible-Light Photocatalytic Activity

Tong Yang, Yingzhi Zhao, Yang Zuo, Jianwei Chai, Zefeng Chen, Lai Mun Wong, Tian Bao, Shijie Wang*, Yun Jiang Jin*, Ming Yang*

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 127,no. 31, pp. 15271-15277, 2023.

13. Atomic ruthenium modification of nickel-cobalt alloy for enhanced alkaline hydrogen evolution

Liuqing Li, Haifa Qiu, Yanping Zhu*, Gao Chen, Sixuan She, Xuyun Guo, Hao Li, Tiancheng Liu, Zezhou Lin, Hanmo Zhou, Ye Zhu, Ming Yang, Baomin Xu*, Haitao Huang*

Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, vol. 331, pp. 122710, 2023.

14. Detection of two-dimensional small polarons at oxide interfaces by optical spectroscopy

Chi Sin Tang, Shengwei Zeng, Jing Wu, Shunfeng Chen, Muhammad A Naradipa, Dongsheng Song, MV Milošević, Ping Yang, Caozheng Diao, Jun Zhou, Stephen J Pennycook, Mark BH Breese, Chuanbing Cai, Thirumalai Venkatesan, Ariando Ariando, Ming Yang*, Andrew TS Wee*, Xinmao Yin*

Applied Physics Reviews, vol. 10,no. 3, 2023.

15. Reply to: Mobility overestimation in molybdenum disulfide transistors due to invasive voltage probes

Hong Kuan Ng, Du Xiang, Ady Suwardi, Guangwei Hu, Ke Yang, Yunshan Zhao, Tao Liu, Zhonghan Cao, Huajun Liu, Shisheng Li, Jing Cao, Qiang Zhu, Zhaogang Dong, Chee Kiang Ivan Tan, Dongzhi Chi, Cheng-Wei Qiu, Kedar Hippalgaonkar, Goki Eda, Ming Yang*, Jing Wu*

Nature Electronics, vol. 6,no. 11, pp. 839-841, 2023.

16. Recent Advances in The Data-Driven Development of Emerging Electrocatalysts

Keda Ding, Tong Yang, Man Tai Leung, Ke Yang, Hao Cheng, Minggang Zeng, Bing Li*, Ming Yang*

Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, pp. 101404, 2023.

17. Stable Seawater Oxidation at High-Salinity Conditions Promoted by Low Iron-Doped Non-Noble-Metal Electrocatalysts

Dina Zhang, Hao Cheng, Xiaoyu Hao, Qian Sun, Tianyi Zhang, Xinwu Xu, Zelin Ma, Tong Yang, Jun Ding, Xuqing Liu*, Ming Yang*, Xiaolei Huang*

ACS Catalysis, vol. 13,no. 23, pp. 15581-15590, 2023.

18. Ammonia Electrosynthesis from Nitrate Using a Ruthenium–Copper Cocatalyst System: A Full Concentration Range Study

Qikun Hu, Ke Yang, Ouwen Peng, Minzhang Li, Lu Ma, Songpeng Huang, Yonghua Du, Zong-Xiang Xu, Qing Wang, Zhongxin Chen*, Ming Yang*, Kian Ping Loh*

Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 146,no. 1, pp. 668-676, 2023.

19. Optical detection of small polarons in vanadium dioxide and their critical role in mediating metal- insulator transition

Xiongfang Liu, Tong Yang, Jing Wu, Mengxia Sun, Mingyao Chen, Chi Sin Tang*, Kun Han, Difan Zhou, Shengwei Zeng, Shuo Sun, Sensen Li, Ming Yang*, Mark BH Breese, Chuanbing Cai, Thirumalai Venkatesan, Andrew TS Wee, Xinmao Yin*

arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.17419

2022

1. Selective hydrogenation improves interface properties of high-k dielectrics on 2D semiconductors

Yulin Yang, Tong Yang, Tingting Song, Jun Zhou, Jianwei Chai, Lai Wong, Hongyi Zhang, Wenzhang Zhu, Shijie Wang* and Ming Yang*

Nano Research, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 4646–4652, 2022.

2 . Design and synthesis of single phase Hf 0.25 Zr 0.25 Ce 0.25 Y 0.125 Si 0.125 O 2-δ high-entropy ceramics

Siao Liew, Jun Zhou, Fengxia Wei, Ping Ni, Yu Tan, Chong Lim, Tzee Luai, Jing Jun, Coryl Lee, Ming Yang and Shijie Wang*

Journal of Alloys and Compounds, vol. 904, pp. 164097, 2022.

3. Reply to: Detectivities of WS2/HfS2 heterojunctions

Steven Lukman, Lu Ding, Lei Xu, Tao Ye, Anders Jensen, Gang Zhang, Qingyang Wu, Ming Yang, Luo Sheng, Chuanghan Hsu, Liangzi Yao, Gengchiau Liang, Hsin Lin, Yong Zhang, Kristian Thygesen, Qi Wang, Yuanping Feng and J Teng*

Nature Nanotechnology, vol. 17, 2022.

4. A Bifunctional Memristor Enables Multiple Neuromorphic Computing Applications

Nikolay Lyapunov, Xiao Zheng, Kevin Yang*, Hao Liu, Kai Zhou, Song Cai, Tsz Ho, Chun Suen, Ming Yang, Jiong Zhao*, Xiaoyuan Zhou* and Ji Dai*

Advanced Electronic Materials, pp. 2101235, 2022.

5. Edge stimulated hydrogen evolution reaction on monodispersed MXene quantum dots

Bowen Jiang, Tong Yang, Tingting Wang, Cheng Chen, Ming Yang, Xueyuan Yang*, Jian Zhang* and Kou Kui*

Chemical Engineering Journal, vol. 442, pp. 136119, 2022.

6. Wafer‐Scale 2H‐MoS2 Monolayer for High Surface‐enhanced Raman Scattering Performance: Charge‐

Transfer Coupled with Molecule Resonance

Keyu An, Mingpeng Chen, Bingchen He, Haoqiang Ai, Wei Wang, Zhihong Zhang, Zhongbin Pan, Shi Chen, Weng Ip, Kin Lo, J Chai, Shijie Wang, Ming Yang*, Shuang Wang* and Hui Pan*

Advanced Materials Technologies, vol. 7, no. 8, pp. 2200217, 2022.

7. Formation of Magnetic Anionic Electrons by Hole Doping

Jingyu He, Yuanzheng Chen, Zishen Wang, Ming Yang, Tong Yang, Lei Shen, Xiaoguang Xu, Yong Jiang, J Chai, Lai Wong, Shijie Wang, Yuan Feng and Jun Zhou

Journal of Materials Chemistry C, vol. 14, no. 31, pp. 11369-11377 2022.

8. Lithium incorporation enhanced resistive switching behaviors in lithium lanthanum titanium oxide-based

heterostructure

Yibo Deng, Xiaoguang Xu*, Lu Zhang, Fei Du, Qi Liu, Jikun Chen, Kangkang Meng, Yong Wu, Ming Yang and Yong Jiang*

Nano Research, vol. 128, pp. 142-147, 2022.

9. High-Throughput Computational Discovery and Intelligent Design of Two-Dimensional Functional

Materials for Various Applications.

Lei Shen*, Jun Zhou, Tong Yang, Ming Yang* and Yuan Ping Feng*

Accounts of Materials Research, vol. 3, no. 6, pp. 572–583, 2022.

10. Enhanced CO2 sorption in a hybrid PEI–Mo oxide film via pulsed electrodeposition

Mohammad Tanhaei, Ming Yang, Jayce JW Cheng, Yi Ren, Arash Nemati, Jisheng Pan and Sing Yang Chiam*

Materials Advances, vol. 3, pp. 5510-5520, 2022.

11. Low-Dimensional Porous Carbon Networks Using Single-/Triple-Coupling Polycyclic Hydrocarbon

Precursors

Dingguan Wang, Xuefeng Lu, Arramel, Liangliang Cai, Lei Zhang, Shuo Feng, Wenjing Zhang, Ming Yang*, Jishan Wu*, Zhuo Wang* and Andrew TS Wee*

ACS Nano, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 9843–9851, 2022

12. Improving carrier mobility in two-dimensional semiconductors with rippled materials

Nature Electronics, vol. 5, pp. 489–496, 2022

13. Multi-Level Resistive Switching in SnSe/SrTiO3 Heterostructure Based Memristor Device

Tsz-Lung Ho, Keda Ding, Nikolay Lyapunov, Chun-Hung Suen, Lok-Wing Wong, Jiong Zhao, Ming Yang, Xiaoyuan Zhou and Ji-Yan Dai*

Nanomaterials, vol. 12, no. 13, pp. 2128, 2022.

14. Interlayer‐Incorporation of MoS2 (TM‐MoS2) to Achieve Unique Magnetic and Electronic Properties for

Spintronics

Haoyun Bai, Qingyun Wu, Haoqiang Ai, Di Liu, Jinxian Feng, Lay Kee Ang, Yunhao Lu, Ming Yang* and Hui Pan*

Advanced Electronic Materials, pp. 2200209, 2022.

15. Large-scale few-layered MoS2 as saturable absorber for Q-switching operation at 2.3 µm

Fangyuan Zha, Hongwei Chu*, Zhongben Pan, Han Pan, Shengzhi Zhao, Ming Yang and Dechun Li*

Optics Letters, vol. 47, no. 13, pp. 3271, 2022.

16. Electrostatic potential-derived charge: a universal OER performance descriptor for MOFs

Xiangdong Xue, Hongyi Gao*, Jiangtao Liu, Ming Yang, Shihao Feng, Zhimeng Liu, Jing Lin, Jitti Kasemchainan, Linmeng Wang, Qilu Jia, Ge Wang*

Chemical Science, vol. 13, no. 44, pp. 13160-13171, 2022.

17. A confinement approach to fabricate hybrid PBAs-derived FeCo@ NC yolk-shell nanoreactors for bisphenol A degradation

Wuxiang Zhang, Ming Yang, Hao Zhang, Xiaojiang Yu, Wen Zhang, Andrew TS Wee*, Xin Yan, Junwen Qi, Jiansheng Li*

Chemical Engineering Journal, vol. 428, pp. 131080, 2022.

18. Unravelling Distance-Dependent Inter-Site Interactions and Magnetic Transition Effects of Heteronuclear Single Atom Catalysts on Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction

Tong Yang, Jun Zhou, Xiaoyang Ma, Keda Ding, Kay Chen Tan, Ge Wang, Haitao Huang, Ming Yang

arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.05801

19. Structure dependent and strain tunable magnetic ordering in ultrathin chromium telluride

Jun Zhou, Xiaohe Song, Jianwei Chai, Nancy Lai Mun Wong, Xiaoguang Xu, Yong Jiang, Yuan Ping Feng, Ming Yang*, Shijie Wang*

Journal of Alloys and Compounds, vol. 893, pp. 162223, 2022.

20. Tuning photoresponse of graphene-black phosphorus heterostructure by electrostatic gating and photo- induced doping

Yanpeng Liu*, Ming Yang, Junpeng Lu, Ying Liu, Hongwei Liu, Erwen Zhang, Wei Fu, Junyong Wang, Zhenliang Hu, Jun Yin, Goki Eda, Shijie Wang, Jiabao Yi, Ajayan Vinu, Kian Ping Loh*

Chinese Chemical Letters, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 368-373, 2022.

21. Biaxial strain induced multiple magnetic phase transitions in nonmagnetic transition metal halide monolayer

Jun Zhou, Xiaoguang Xu, Tong Yang, Jingyu He, Jianwei Chai, Lai Mun Wong, Yuan Ping Feng, Ming Yang*, Lei Shen*, Shijie Wang*

Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2022.

22. Phase and polarization modulation in two-dimensional In2Se3 via in situ transmission electron microscopy

Xiaodong Zheng, Wei Han, Ke Yang, Lok Wing Wong, Chi Shing Tsang, Ka Hei Lai, Fangyuan Zheng, Tiefeng Yang, Shu Ping Lau, Thuc Hue Ly*, Ming Yang*, Jiong Zhao*

Science advances, vol. 8, no. 42, pp. eabo0773, 2022.

23. Unconventional magnetoresistive behavior near magnetic compensation temperature in ferrimagnetic Mn2. 21Ru0. 86Ga films

Chunyue Dou, Xiaoguang Xu*, Ke Yang, Chexin Li, Tanzhao Zhang, Zhiqiang Zhu, Xiaoyi Zhao, Kangkang Meng, Yong Wu, Jikun Chen, Ming Yang, VV Khovaylo, Yong Jiang*

Applied Physics Letters, vol. 121, no. 18, 2022.

2021

1. Measurement of direct and indirect bandgaps in synthetic ultrathin MoS2 and WS2 films from

photoconductivity spectra

Ilya Shlyakhov*, Konstantin Iakoubovskii, S Banerjee, Abhinav Gaur, Daoyuan Lin, I Asselberghs, I Radu, J Chai, Ming Yang, Shijie Wang, Michel Houssa, A Stesmans and V Afanas’ev

Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 129, pp. 155302, 2021.

2. Design and Synthesis of Single Phase Hf 0.25Zr 0.25Ce 0.25Y 0.125Si 0.125O 2-δ High Entropy Ceramics

Siao Liew, Jun Zhou, Fengxia Wei, Xi Ni, Sze Tan, Poh Lim, Meng Luai, Jing Lee, Ming Yang and Shijie Wang*

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021.

3. First-principles study of uniaxial strain-stabilized long-range ferromagnetic ordering in electrenes

Jun Zhou, Xiaohe Song, Ming Yang, J Chai, Lai Wong, Lei Shen*, Shijie Wang* and Yuan Feng*

Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2021.

4. Room Temperature Ferromagnetism of Monolayer Chromium Telluride with Perpendicular Magnetic

Anisotropy

Rebekah Chua, Jun Zhou, Xiaojiang Yu, Wei Yu, Jian Gou, Rui Zhu, Lei Zhang, Meizhuang Liu, Mark Breese, Wei Chen, Kian Loh, Yuan Feng, Ming Yang*, Yuli Huang* and Andrew Wee*

Advanced Materials, vol. 33, pp. 2103360, 2021.

5. Structure dependent and strain tunable magnetic ordering in ultrathin chromium telluride

Jun Zhou, Xiaohe Song, J Chai, Nancy Wong, Yong Jiang, Yuan Feng, Ming Yang* and Shijie Wang*

Journal of Alloys and Compounds, vol. 893, pp. 162223, 2021.

6. Tunable Rashba spin-orbit coupling and its interplay with multiorbital effect and magnetic ordering at

oxide interfaces

Weilong Kong, Tong Yang, Jun Zhou, Yong Luo, Tao Zhu, Jingsheng Chen, Lei Shen, Yong Jiang, Yuan Feng* and Ming Yang*

Physical Review B, vol. 104, 2021.

7. Internal photoemission of electrons from 2D semiconductor/3D metal barrier structures

Ilya Shlyakhov*, Swati Achra, Niels Bosman, Inge Asselberghs, Cedric Huyghebaert, Iuliana Radu, J Chai, Ming Yang, Shi Wang, Ageeth Bol, Konstantin Iakoubovskii, Michel Houssa, Andre Stesmans and Valeri Afanasiev

Journal of Physics D Applied Physics, vol. 54, pp. 295101, 2021.

8. Emergent Midgap Excitons in Large‐Size Freestanding 2D Strongly Correlated Perovskite Oxide Films

Yuguo Zhang, Haijiao Ma*, Xin Gan, Yupeng Hui, Yueying Zhang, Jie Su*, Ming Yang, Hu Zhaosheng, Juanxiu Xiao, Xiaoli Lu, J Zhang and Yue Hao

Advanced Optical Materials, vol. 9, pp. 2170038, 2021.

9. A Confinement Approach to Fabricate Hybrid PBAs-Derived FeCo@NC Yolk-shell Nanoreactors for

Bisphenol A Degradation

Wuxiang Zhang, Ming Yang, Hao Zhang, Xiaojiang Yu, Wen Zhang, Andrew Wee*, Xin Yan, Junwen Qi and Jiansheng Li*

Chemical Engineering Journal, vol. 428, pp. 131080, 2021.

10. Tuning photoresponse of graphene-black phosphorus heterostructure by electrostatic gating and photo-

induced doping

Yanpeng Liu*, Ming Yang, Junpeng Lu, Ying Liu, Hongwei Liu, Erwen Zhang, Wei Fu, Junyong Wang, Zhenliang Hu, Jun Yin, Goki Eda, Shijie Wang, Jiabao Yi, Ajayan Vinu and Kian Loh*

Chinese Chemical Letters, vol. 33, 2021.

11. Ag 2 S monolayer: an ultrasoft inorganic Lieb lattice

Tong Yang, Yong Luo, Zishen Wang, Tao Zhu, Hui Pan, Shijie Wang, Shu Lau, Yuan Feng* and Ming Yang*

Nanoscale, vol. 13, 2021.

12. On-Surface Synthesis of Variable Bandgap Nanoporous Graphene

Dingguan Wang, Xuefeng Lu, Arramel Arramel, Ming Yang*, Jishan Wu* and Andrew Wee*

Small, vol. 17, 2021.

Patents

1. A novel sputtering system with central electrode and hollow sputtering cathode for 2D film deposition

Jian Wei Chai, Shi Jie Wang, Dong Zhi Chi, and Ming Yang

PCT/SG2018/050462, 2018.

2. A novel memristor structure based on stacked layers of nanocrystalline TMDCs